No. 97. 
Dysoxylon Aluelleri, Benth. 
The Red Bean. 
(Family MEEIACEyE). 
Uotnilical description— Genus, Dysoxylon. (See Part XKIII, p. 27.) 
I5otauical description. —Species, Muelleri, Benth., in B.F1. i., 881 (1863). 
A tree of 60 feet or more, glabrous or nearly so, except the very young shoots and inflorescence. 
Leaves.— 1 to 2 feet long ; leaflets 11 to 21, from ovate to almost lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
3 to 6 inches long, very oblique at the base, one side rounded, the other truncate and 
shorter, almost coriaceous. 
Panicles pyramidal, f to 1 foot long, much-branched and many-flowered. 
Calyx cupular, \ to | line long, pubescent, 4-lobed. 
Petals 4, nearly glabrous, about 5 lines long, adhering to the staminal tube to about two-thirds 
their length. 
Staminal tube truncate and minutely crenulate, hirsute outside. 
Disc narrow-tubular, nearly half as long as the staminal tube. 
Ovary hirsute, 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 
Fruit only seen very young, soon becoming glabrous.* (B.F1. i, 381.) 
Botanical Name. — Dysoxylon, already explained (see Part XXIII, p. 30); 
Muelleri, in honor of the late Baron von Mueller. 
Vernacular Names. —It boars various names, viz., “ Pencil Cedar ” and 
“ Turnip Wood,” both given from the smell of the wood. “ Red Bean” is, however, 
the commonest name, and one not applied to any other tree, so far as I know. It 
gets its name because it is supposed to resemble the timber of the Black Bean 
(Castanospernium auslrale) except in colour, which is red, but the name is a little 
far fetched. 
Aboriginal Name. —Mocoundie” of the aborigines of the Clarence and 
Richmond, N.S.W., according to the late Mr. Charles Moore. 
Mr. P. M. Bailey quotes Mr. Schneider in giving the name as “ Kedgy 
Kedgv ” at Nerang, South Queensland. 
See “Fruits,” p. 116. 
